Obfuscation and Repetition, (Mon, Oct 5th)
The obfuscated payload of a maldoc submitted by a reader can be quickly extracted with the “strings method” I explained in diary entry “Quickie: String Analysis is Still Useful“.
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The obfuscated payload of a maldoc submitted by a reader can be quickly extracted with the “strings method” I explained in diary entry “Quickie: String Analysis is Still Useful“.
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Nmap 7.90 is released, right after the release of Npcap 1.00, .
Nmap 7.90 is released, right after the release of Npcap 1.00, .
In the past 30 days lots of scanning activity looking for small office and home office (SOHO) routers targeting Netgear.
Sometimes, attackers make mistakes and allow security researchers&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;to access interesting resources. This time, it&#;x26;#;39;s another phishing kit that was left in the wild on the compromised server.
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Remember, back in the days, when the anti-virus vendors looked with derision at some of their competition, exclaiming “But they are using just SIGNATURES. Our tool detects BEHAVIOURS”. That was like 15 years ago. Fast forward to today, with many of the same vendors now selling “threat intelligence feeds” for good money, and the most frequent attributes pushed over these feeds are MD5/SHA1 hashes and IP addresses. The main thing that changed is that we now call these items “IOCs” (Indicators of Compromise) instead of “signatures”, but they still mostly are what they always were: Binary fingerprints that are very easy for an attacker to change.
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Chances are, you are quite familiar with the logs of your on-premises Active Directory (AD) domain controller. The corresponding Event IDs have been well documented over the years (though not thanks to Microsoft), and many blog posts have been written about how to use AD logs to detect Pass-the-Hash, brute force attempts, Kerberoasting, and more.
Continue reading Making sense of Azure AD (AAD) activity logs, (Thu, Oct 1st)